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Will set up rig and take some photos later, stay tuned. Meanwhile, find yourself a source of low DC voltage. Six volts is entirely suitable. Get a pack of alligator clips and some wire at your favorite electronics or hardware store. Lamp cord works great. (The alligator clips are, ultimately...

Electrolysis works too, as long as you connect the correct polarity. Acetic acid is doing the same thing, of course, but more slowly. The advantage of electrolysis is that you're replacing oxide with metal, and not just peeling off the oxide. Protip: A Carbon electrode cut from a low-grade...

Thank you. I didn't agree and looked it up, expecting Tungsten to win. You win. I love learning new things.

I want to shop where you live.

An Amazon showroom is a local brick-and-mortar store where one handles the merchandise, finds it agreeable, and then buys it for less from a large online retailer named after a river in South America.

Big box store that displays fashion garments in the center and outdoor equipment along the sides. The ratio gear:fashion increases as the quality of the store, for our purposes, increases. Another perspective is "Amazon showroom".

Not sure how much gadgetry one would want, but the outfitter stores have clamp-or-bolt-on rod holders. I prefer the rod on the midships thwart so I can keep an eye on it and the line is outboard far enough not to interfere with my paddle. Thread doesn't indicate the water: sea, large lake, large...

Found them. Not trying to have a conversation with myself, rather posting the pics I wanted to post in the first place.

No joy. I wrote Lee Valley customer service. The included angle is 38 degrees. The product itself, with the ability to change cutting edges, is cool. Alas, it's just not tight enough for knife snobs with waterstones.

A community archery park is along my route home from work. Today I had to wait a few minutes. '][/URL] Because I am not very accurate. So I sat in the car and enjoyed the view until they left.

"sparingly" No worries, toss in more yarrow and cook it again at a lower temperature. I overcooked the 2015 batch and had black muck. You do want the liquid to be slightly oily at the first decant or it won't filter. Because I only use early spring shoots it has taken a few years to get the knack.

Thanks for the information. First, because I believed Roman metallurgy stopped at bronze. Second, finding something new to learn is always a pleasure. [trying to stay on bushcraft] Mild steel would be adequate for food cutting edges. I imagine that bodkin arrowheads would work ok...

"To be effective, a cutting tool not only has to have an edge of zero width, but the angle at which the two surfaces meet must accommodate the intended use of the tool and the material from which the tool is made." -- Leonard Lee Those using unknown steels as described up-thread will have to...

Whatever you end up doing with your TCT blades, save a couple of the carbide teeth. I have a challenge for you: fabricate a knife sharpener just like the ones for sale everywhere but with an included angle sharper than the useless 40 degrees of the retail versions. (I want to make such a...

Skive the length that goes through your buckles. My skive is cheap folded sheet metal and holds a single-edge razor blade. I prefer using a sharp chisel or knife. A block plane does the job, too. Second idea is to use your thin stuff, but sew on a second layer everywhere but the part that goes...

How did you roll the hinges? Mandrel? Does hammering the particular Al alloy you used lead to metal fatigue? [going to the google the next couple of metallurgical questions, not ask them here]

Please stop doing that. All you're doing is increasing antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Because you're doing it on skin, you're helping to produce multiple-drug-resistant Staphylococcus. Your native bacterial flora, inside and outside, will rapidly share those drug-resistance genes. When you...

I am not a tenderfoot, cheechako.

All insects are Arthropoda. Not all Arthropoda are insects. The delicious ones tend not to be terrestrial. Whilst we are in a quibbling duel, remember that bugs are insects with sucking mouthparts. My reference to insectivory is to terrestrial insects. The last paper I read on the subject (no...

"Lutefisk: the piece of cod which passes all understanding." I came in late, so am still wondering what is the issue? Migration maps show us spreading from northern Africa to Australia along the coastline. North America appears to have been settled in the same manner with a layover at Baikal...